The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-09-28
MENTIONED IN THE PAPERS.
What Is said of People Whom the Pre-

What Is said of People Whom the Press
Sees Fit to Notice.
Miss Mary G. Burdette, sister of the
humorist Bob" Burdette, is winning
marked success as religious lecturer.
Princess Beatrice has given herself to
the now fashionable study of photog-
raphy, and is turning out creditable
| portraits.
Katkoff was of plebeian origin and had
| hard fight to win his position in the
face of the proud aristocracy of Russia.
His father was a panamar or sac-istan of
the Moscow cathedral, and the future
''power behind the throne" was con-
| temptuously called ''Panamarvitch" by
his fellow students at the university.
Bret Harte, of London, has grown
gray, but looks younger than he did
when here ten years ago. His color IS
quite English. 1t is the fresh color of a
| man who lives a careful, regular life.
| He does not look unlike Lord Wolseley,
| adjutant general of the British army.
Mr.. Harte is living very quietly and goes
i out but little, being engaged on a new
book for which he is outstanding all his
resources.
Alphonse Daudet is no longer in good
health. From n strong, athletic man, a
| lover of out door recreation and sport, he
| has gradually become morose anxious,
| respondent, slave to strained nerves.
| He used to get up at in the morning
and do his best work in the cold. Now
| he writes when he can. He reads no
| books, opens no letters, and husbands his
| failing strength with the most tender
| care.
Felix Regamy, Partisan artist, well
known in Boston, has made the interest
| ing discovery that a French plaster
| molder named Hubbard has in his posses
| sion full sized bronze copy of the marble
| statue of Washington by Houdon, which
| he will sell for $500. NJ. Regamy sug-
gests in The Paris Figaro that the United
| States government purchase the bronze
statue and present it to the gallery of the
Louvre.
Gen. Longstreet is living quietly at
| Gainesville, Ca, writing a book ON the
war. As he finishes chapter he sends
| the manuscript to Washington TO have all
| dates and figures verified from the official
records. The general says: 81 expect
| both sides to pitch into me, and am taxi
| ing time to be certain of all my state
| ments." Gen. Longstreet's publishers do
not care to have him say very much con-
corning the book, but it is understood
that the volume will create much discus.
sion and will be especially interesting to
those who understand the technical de-
tails of the science of war.
| Lawson N. Fuller, who, with Russell
Sage, will try to break the 2:37 record for
four-in-hands ON Fleetwood track this
| fall, says he hasn't missed a meal in
thirty-three years, and attributes his
healthy appetite to continuous driving.
81 am never tired of driving he says,
and driving is the best and most gentle
exercise after eating. Horseback riding
is altogether too violent. / have driven
| 800, 900 miles on this Manhattan Island
| alone. When l was 4 weeks old my
mother rode on horseback with me in her
| lap, and when was years old l gal
| Hoped alone ON horseback from st. Adams
to my home in Bakersfield, fifteen miles
away. But stick to driving if you want
an appetite and good digestion"
Mile. Drounin, who was arrested in
England as dangerous person, is a
school teacher, who inherits from her
father talent for modelling, and who
was innocently preparing to ramble
through England with the modelling clay
which was mistaken for dynamite. Only
a short time ago the luggage of New
England lady was seized at Liverpool,
and the owner put through course of
sharp question:, because something that
the custom house officials took for dyna-
mite was found in one of her trunks.
Only when she broke piece off the lump
and ate it with evident relish could the
officials be persuaded that it was brick
of maple sugar that she was taking to her
friends in England.